IMPORTANT NEWS BREAK: See a few stars who look like their pets.

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Anyone in the New York area who wants to meet Lil Bub, she’ll be at the BARC Animal Shelter in Brooklyn tonight from 5 - 7 PM raising money for local shelter animals. 

Oh please go say hi to Lil’ Bub (and help some animals in need while you’re at it). 

Cute, PETA.

If you live in Minneapolis and love cat videos, boy, do we have an event for you:

On Aug. 30, the well-respected Minneapolis institution the Walker Art Center will hold the first-ever film festival of Internet cat videos… It’s “more of a social experiment,” says the organizer and a Walker programming director, Katie Hill. It was started to see whether the online cat community would even go outside, says Hill, who has two cats herself.

I believe that anally electrocuting an animal is a violent behavior. I don’t believe a bit of pie can be compared to that in any way.

PETA vice president Kathy Guillermo tells us she sheds no tears for celebs like Kim Kardashian who get pied and flour-bombed for wearing fur.

Big cow is big!

Craig Romney’s “fearless sidekick”

Think you can handle a gallery of animals with hearts in their fur? We double dog dare you to try.

The detached pelt looks like a deflated furry football with a cute nose and whiskers. Zander turns it inside out, stretches it over a wooden plank, and begins to scrape the skin with a blade. If the fat isn’t removed, the skin will rot and the fur will fall off. Next he pulls the skin over a frame to dry. What covered a muskrat corpse five minutes ago now resembles a small, bloody ironing board. After drying for three days, the skins are graded and sorted by size and quality, then wrapped in cardboard, squeezed into bales in lots of 1,500, and shipped out.

In which Jenni Avins goes hunting with a local muskrat trapper, whose furs are eventually sold at T. Zander & Sons Country Fur Salon in the form of jackets, trapper hats, and a “sporty zip-up vest with a $695 price tag.”

[h/t New York]

villagevoice:

This won “Best Animal Photo” at our Web Awards last night. Check out the rest of the winners

This made us laugh.